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Contemporary Passions VIII South Hams Arts Forum |
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Tuesday 3 - Sunday 15 August 2010
10am - 5pm
The South Hams Arts Forum presents its eighth annual summer exhibition, and this year's varied and contemporary collection includes painting, printmaking, sculpture, glass and jewellery from 10 members of this thriving artists' collective, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. The local landscape is much in evidence in this year's exhibition. Anita Reynolds takes a break from moorland imagery and focuses this year on her favourite Wonwell Estuary, and the South West Coast Path. She shows two large mixed media paintings, and smaller on-site sketches and mixed media works. Alison Veazey, too, revisits familiar landscapes, previously approached through printmaking and now explored in a series of mixed media pieces and a strong palette of reds. Emma Cook's new work is inspired by the coastal walk from Bugle Rocks to Noss Mayo, with abstracted shapes explored in a vivid turquoise and embellished with metal foils, beadwork and embossing. Maggie Smith's drypoints are inspired by her garden, and in particular her vegetable patch, and she also shows monoprints and mixed media pieces with a sea theme. Rosemary Moser, too, responds to nature and the great outdoors, with drypoint etchings and acrylic paintings. Inka Gabriel works with glass to produce tall, elegant lamps, often incorporating pebbles from the local shoreline, and Olivia Wotton's jewellery, too, incorporates shells from the beach near her Beeson workshop, which she combines with 925 silver, 9 and 18ct gold, freshwater pearls, semi-precious stones, Swarovski crystals, semi-precious stones, handmade glass beads and fair trade Acholi beads. Pippa Martins' handcrafted silver jewellery is also very much influenced by the textures and colours of the countryside, coastal areas and moorland of Devon. Stella Wain-Heapy makes kiln-formed glass dishes depicting seascapes around the South Hams, using coloured dichroic and irridescent glasses, and introduces a new range of 'free fall' vases where the glass has been allowed to form its own shape in the kiln. Joanna Martins is well known for her cold cast bronzes of hares and other native animals, and also develops inventive mixed media sculptures with a stong symbolism and which draw on her extensive travels and research in Africa. www.littlemissprint.co.uk www.stonehanger.co.uk www.pressgangprintmakers.org.uk
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